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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 44
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The glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord—No strangers may enter the sanctuary—Services of the priests in the temple are set forth.
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Then</span> he brought me back the way of the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 6; Ezek. 42: 15; Ezek. 43: 1 (1-2).">gate</a> of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it <i>was</i> shut.
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Then said the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the God of Israel, hath <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 43: 4.">entered</a> in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
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<i>It is</i> for the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 34: 24; Ezek. 37: 25 (24-25); Ezek. 45: 7; Ezek. 48: 21.">prince</a>; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 31: 54.">bread</a> before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; he shall enter by the way of the porch of <i>that</i> gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
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&#182; Then brought he me the way of the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 20 (17, 20).">north</a> gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/4b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 40: 34 (34-35); 1 Kgs. 8: 11 (10-11); Ezek. 43: 5.">glory</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> filled the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and I <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/4c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 1: 28.">fell</a> upon my face.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
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And thou shalt say to the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 2: 5; Ezek. 12: 2; Ezek. 24: 3.">rebellious</a>, <i>even</i> to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
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In that ye have brought <i>into my sanctuary</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 51; Ezek. 23: 38.">strangers</a>, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sacrilege.">pollute</a> it, <i>even</i> my house, when ye offer my <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/7c" mark="c" type="A" title="Lev. 3: 11.">bread</a>, the <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/44/7d" mark="d" type="A" title="Lev. 3: 17 (16-17).">fat</a> and the <sup>e</sup><a href="ezek/44/7e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Blood, Eating of.">blood</a>, and they have broken my <sup>f</sup><a href="ezek/44/7f" mark="f" type="A" title="D&C 1: 15.">covenant</a> because of all your abominations.
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And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
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&#182; Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; No stranger, <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Circumcision.">uncircumcised</a> in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that <i>is</i> among the children of Israel.
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And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/10a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR guilt.">iniquity</a>.
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Yet they shall be ministers in my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Temple.">sanctuary</a>, <i>having</i> charge at the gates of the house, and <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 45: 5; Ezek. 46: 24.">ministering</a> to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.
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Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>, and they shall bear their iniquity.
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And they shall not come <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 18: 3; 2 Kgs. 23: 9.">near</a> unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 4 (1-4); Ezek. 45: 3.">holy</a> <i>place:</i> but they shall bear their <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a>, and their abominations which they have committed.
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But I will make them <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 40: 45; Ezek. 48: 11.">keepers</a> of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
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&#182; But the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/15a" mark="a" type="C" title="Deut. 17: 9; Ezek. 43: 19; TG Priests.">priests</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 10: 8.">Levites</a>, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Num. 16: 5; Ezek. 40: 46.">come</a> near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>:
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They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 22; Mal. 1: 12 (7, 12).">table</a>, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
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&#182; And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> when they <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 28: 43.">enter</a> in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 28: 39; Ex. 39: 27.">linen</a> garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
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They shall have linen <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 39: 28.">bonnets</a> upon their heads, and shall have linen <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 6: 10.">breeches</a> upon their loins; they shall not gird <i>themselves</i> with any thing that causeth sweat.
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And when they go forth into the utter court, <i>even</i> into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 42: 14.">garments</a> wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
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Neither shall they <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 21: 5; 1 Cor. 11: 14.">shave</a> their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/20b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR cut, trim.">poll</a> their heads.
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Neither shall any <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priests.">priest</a> drink <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 10: 9.">wine</a>, when they enter into the inner court.
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Neither shall they take for their wives a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 21: 14 (7, 13-14).">widow</a>, nor her that is <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/22b" mark="b" type="E" title="OR divorced; Matt. 5: 32.">put</a> away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
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And they shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 23: 14.">teach</a> my people <i>the</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/23b" mark="b" type="C" title="Lev. 10: 10; Ezek. 22: 26; TG Discernment, Spiritual."><i>difference</i></a> between the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/23c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sacred.">holy</a> and profane, and cause them to discern between the <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/44/23d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Uncleanness.">unclean</a> and the clean.
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And in <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 17: 8 (8-9).">controversy</a> they shall stand in judgment; <i>and</i> they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Moro. 7: 15 (15-18).">judge</a> it according to my <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/24c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 25: 1 (1-3).">judgments</a>: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/44/24d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Meetings.">assemblies</a>; and they shall hallow my <sup>e</sup><a href="ezek/44/24e" mark="e" type="A" title="Jer. 17: 27 (22, 24, 27); Ezek. 22: 26.">sabbaths</a>.
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And they shall come at no <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 21: 1 (1-3).">dead</a> person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.
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And after he is <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 19: 11 (11-12).">cleansed</a>, they shall reckon unto him seven days.
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And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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And <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/28a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the temple service.">it</a> shall be unto them for an <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/28b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 18: 20.">inheritance</a>: I <i>am</i> their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I <i>am</i> their possession.
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They shall eat the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/29a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR grain, or flour; Lev. 6: 14 (14-18, 25-29).">meat</a> offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
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And the first of all the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 29; Neh. 10: 35.">firstfruits</a> of all <i>things,</i> and every <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/44/30b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR offering.">oblation</a> of all, of every <i>sort</i> of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/44/30c" mark="c" type="A" title="Num. 15: 20.">dough</a>, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
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The priests shall not eat of any thing that is <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/44/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lev. 22: 8.">dead</a> of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast.
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